 Still, it was Lil' Kim, the selfproclaimed "Queen Bitch," who led but the latest iteration of American women's reappropriating the word "bitch", now also to antidote a "bitches ain't shit" residue.As the 21st century settled in, by absorbing the label "bitch", women preempted its use against them, and reframed it to buoy their own ambitions.But since their 1996 debut albums, both Lil' Kim and her popular rap contemporary female, [[Foxy Brown (rapper)|Foxy Brown]]—two rappers who would slur each other as various types of "bitch"—had leaned on profane boasts of vanity and lewdness, [[avarice]] and violence, more gangsta rap.